/lit/ - Literature

Is there anywhere else which is better? seriously if you know please tell me I want to escape this digital limbo please

I found myself trapped in 4chan, so I thought I would spend my time doing something productive, like reading, instead of shitposting on /v/ as I had been

>>11590088
Me having no other interest outside of reading

>>11590088
I used to frequent my national chan and its /lit/-equivalent, as i was interested in books.But it was really slow, so as I was familiar with the imageboard-format, I came here to check this place out.

>>11590212
>>11590233
But you were reading the classics and stuff before /lit/, right? What drove you here then?
>>11590212
Real life? I have fantastic discussions with a group of people who study literature/philosophy or professors, intellectuals, artists, ... It's actually very refreshing and affirming in contrast to the shitshow and emotional drain that is /lit/.
On the internet, I never had any luck. It's really bizarre - outside of 4chan you have to try really hard to find any relevant discussion about even the most surface level stuff, like Dostoevsky, Plato or Nietzsche. It's even worse for other art forms. I'm a painting student and have never in my life participated in a proper discussion on the subject anywhere on the internet. Even on 4chan, visual art and theatre don't have a board.
>inb4 /ic/
That place is filled with anime and technical tips and nothing else

>>11590224
How much have you read since coming here? Would you say /lit/ actually managed to ignite your love of literature?

>>11590316
>But you were reading the classics and stuff before /lit/, right?
You can bet. I studied Greek and Latin in highschool

I used to be on 4chan when it was 4/5 years old, and have abstained from visiting after /pol/ blew up and started infecting every board.
I used to go to /mu/ to get recommendations, and since I picked up reading again since early June, I've been going to /lit/ to check the charts in the sticky and to see if people are discussing books I've read. Aside from the charts, this isn't really the place for me. I don't know of any other place where literature is discussed, so I mostly just check the first 2 pages to see if there is any discussion I find interesting, but mostly there is nothing for me.

>>11590088
this meme that 4chan is the bottom of the barrel in some way is kinda stale at this point.
I always have great conversations here. Sifting through memes and trolling is a fair price to pay for total anonymity.

Friend recommended botns to me so I came to /lit/ to discuss it because it was great and then I started with the Greeks...

>>11590088
I enjoy kekking. I'm here to savor a good chuckle and poke fun at everything and nothing at all.

>>11590316
>Real life? I have fantastic discussions with a group of people who study literature/philosophy or professors, intellectuals, artists
why don't you get out of here and stay with them, normie

/b/ told me to come here when they realized i was serious about wanting book club. people need to understand book club srs bsns.

>>11590316
how'd you find those friends?

I've been browsing 4chan casually for ten years, so when a love for reading took off inside me it was only natural that I'd end up wasting time here

i started on r/books but got tired of it

>>11590316
We're not all privileged enough to have found such a friend group.

I like the anonymity of it because it makes me feel less self conscious when discussing things. I get too caught up in my own head sometimes. I feel that I can be completely open with my theories or interpretations of books here, with the only drawback being that I occasionally get called retarded.
But also, there isn't anywhere else like /lit/. Yeah there's stupid stuff on here, but I don't know of anywhere else online that manages to have the kind of genuine discussion I see happening here, especially about lesser known books. I even tried reddit at one point and just got shit like my pic.

>>11590088
I don't read much due to severe adhd which also traps me on this website, but over the years other boards became too fast, and completely overrun by cretins. This is my last refuge where meaningful discussion is still somewhat possible

honestly, being anonymous is much comfier compared to tumblr or any other blue hellsite on the clearnet

I am experimenting to see if there's any reason to engage with people here anymore.

I don't think there is. But I'm lonely. We're all lonely here.

>>11591838
>Hey guys I'm 4689 years old today and I just finished reading my very first book! Why didn't tell me Harry Potter was amazing! Please upvote

>>11590088
There are no better discussion venues. Either pseudreads, reddit.com or some obscure forum who always has that one guy who gets on your nerve.
I often disable thumbnails because they're distractions. I'm here for the discussion.
I have no persona apart from my stylometry. That's liberating. I've contemplated buying a 4chan pass ever since they disabled the original captcha but I always reconsider whenever I think of the hell that is the other sections if the site.

If you know of a better place to discuss philosophy, religion and literature in one place, I'm open to suggestions.

>>11591838
You are not part of the well read high IQ post crowd. Leave this thread you run of the mill reader.

>>11591907
you understand my suffering anon

>Hey guys I just finished reading this deep and dense book, its called The fault in our stars.

At young age I would post on the roblox subforums and then I started going on 4chan because I was an edgy youth who believe this website to be a funny place for edgy badasses. Not much longer after that I was addicted to the chan and eventually developed an addiction to porn that managed to haunt me for what I believe to be a year. I eventually put a stop to my addiction after a 6 month peak. Around a year later I relapsed which was a couple nights ago and then I remembered I wanted to expand my vocabulary and pursue philosophy and poetry as a passion, both of which I’ve shown an interest in for quite some time.
I don’t actually post here I just be lurking n shiet.

>>11591896
A lot of people are lonely anon. Not just us, just people have a habit of directing their loneliness into other things. Be in alcohol, excess gym routines. We just like books and intellectual silliness mixed with heavy irony and sadism. No different from anyone else

>>11591843
>>11591822
For starters, I didn't exactly "find" it. Such connections build up over years. You go to the art house cinema with an old buddy, they introduce you to someone new. You later meet that someone new at an art exhibition opening and have a small chat etc. etc.
I never actually put any effort in meeting people or whatever, but I guess one's "success" depends highly on external factors. I live in an environment where I've been involved with art from an early age since the country isn't America-level big, you just kind of grow into the literary/intellectual circles, because if you don't you're completely ostracized by normies.

Despite all this, I'm developing a more and more serious case of social anxiety and depression.

>>11592597
>anxiety
>depression

>>11590088
people here often tell me they appreciate my posts so I think i might apply to the question.

I'm basically an autodidact, outside of highschool IB literature classes, which i did extremly well at, i have never had any formal training because I went insane just as I went into university, so i had to drop out. My insanity didnt prevent me from reading a shitload though so I have a kind of wide spread of topics to talk about. I also have met a very wide variety of people who are into these subjects and irl we can talk about them very well.

And yes this is my only real outlet. Mostly because when I found irl outlets, groups of friends, girflfriends, literary circles, etc. the convesration was always dominated by fashion, with brief moments, often induced by drinking, of more honest discourse.

The basic anonymous uncensored, and unrated(in the point system sense) of the this website always drew me away from those venues of conversation to here. There is a lot of bullshit but i can have multiple times a week a novel and honest conversation with someone on here, whereas irl i would have that maybe 20 times a year at most, and it would always be contained by the parameters of what me and tha t person could really say to each other because of the social strictures that confined us to certain modes of thought.

>>11591888
checked

>>11592612
what did you mean by this?

>>11592640
he presumably meant that anxiety and depression run diametrically opposed to one another, or that this guy is a normie with friends so he can't have any legitimate feelings idk dude.

>>11590266
Same. Just wishing there was some quality discussion available in my own language, but it's always either slow as fuck or just brainlet women reading YA shit.

>>11590266
>>11592855
at least you have spaces like that. i'm from the balkans and most don't even read in school. people who read are unironically unaware of their ignorance and deficiencies and behave and talk as if evenone else should be sacrificing virgins to them. it's sad.

>>11590088
board culture, lack of people to talk to irl, generally lurking to get ideas, expand knowledge etc., to enjoy the occasional shitpost and of course enjoy good conversations when such are present

>>11592962
OP here, from the balkans as well.
>people who read are unironically unaware of their ignorance and deficiencies

It's absolutely horrible, especially with young people, like most literature students and wannabe intellectual posers, who garnish their instagram profiles with pictures of them reading Kafka or Nietzsche.
You should talk to some university professors or writers, critics etc. I think most older people are really happy to talk with younger generations.

>>11592997
i'm glad that you feel the same way. Yeah, i dont mind talking to down to earth people, it's just that im autistic and the places i;ve visited are a cesspool or artsy assholes who think they are the shit because 100 people liked a 'poem' of theirs on instagram, as you said. on the other hand this keeps me hungry in a sense, after all there's so much more to read and learn.

>>11591856
What's the point desu

>>11591838
Just browsed the main page. Fucking cancer, 105 IQ dicksucking morons